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The current debate on trade liberalization is accompanied by an increased concern about environmental and food safety issues leading to frictions of different country groups under the World Trade Organization (WTO). This discussion paper aims at shedding more light on some of the issues in the...
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Retail pricing strategies incorporate promotions, sales, and rigidities. A number of models have been proposed in particular to explain the occurrence of sales. Focussing on the market for fresh foods the model by Varian and the loss leader argument seem to be intuitively best fitting to the...
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The member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently endorsed its Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in an effort to combat the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We assess the potential consumption impacts of these norms in the United States...
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Genotoxins, both radiation and chemical, by their nature have great capacity for creating unintended third-party harms (externalities), which are difficult to control from a policy standpoint. The difficulties presented by genotoxins stem from 1) the long latency between exposure and the...
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Organic food is often labelled with an organic certification logo to gain consumer trust in theproduct integrity. The number of different organic certification logos in the European marketraises the question whether consumers prefer specific logos over others. The aim of this paperis to analyse...
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This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price changes as a result of accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007. It identifies in both countries those...
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The objective of this paper is to examine value chain governance through case studies of four different certified value chains for Tanzanian tea. This paper takes a look at a traditional export commodity, tea, and discusses the implications of involvement in value-based certification schemes...
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This paper investigates the strategies adopted by economic actors in the context of an institutional change. We base ourselves on data collected as part of an exploratory study in the sugar and fresh vegetable supply chains in Mauritius. The reform of the sugar protocol between the European...
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Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...
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The main objective of this paper is to present the most relevant findings obtained from in depthinterviews with processors and retailers about the N&H claimed products market in Serbia. Inour research we addressed the following set of topics: motivations and barriers to offer N&Hclaimed products...
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